Comment by jsight

The fundamental issue is that most AI tools are solving the wrong problem. We've never had a hard time writing code for well defined requirements.

What we've had a hard time with is understanding what this article calls legacy code, and also understanding where our new changes fit into a larger context.

It isn't at all dissimilar from the paintbrush analogy that all the (neo)vimmers love. We spend more time reading and navigating than we do writing.

AI needs to help with that.